Quotes About Gambling

With the best intentions, John fed Frank's gambling addiction, even though Frank often did not realize the source of the loans.

And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous. Probably the casino---

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.

APPEAL, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

She found she had a great deal less courage altogether than she had smugly supposed while blackmailing investors, or choosing a wig, or pronouncing social death sentences in the salons of Adua. She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? I'll never know. -

Life is a rotten lottery.

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

In his book, Jüdisches Erwerbsleben, Georg Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI's great uncle, wrote: "Jewish commerce can be characterized by two manifestations: 1) it is based on the exploitation of the work of others without any productive activity of its own and 2) it is characterized by gambling and speculation on the differential in values as the way to achieve riches.

The American gambling industry has increasingly become more complex since Wolfshiem/Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919. In fact, Rothstein inspired future generations of Jewish mobsters that built an empire of crime.

In directing the Bureau's attention to individual bank robbers, Hoover turned a blind eye toward organized crime in general and Jewish crime in particular, perhaps because Hoover was an inveterate gambler. Frank Costello gave him tips on horses.

I'm on for any mortal thing!' My voice rang true, I swear, but it was the way of Raffles to take the evidence of as many senses as possible. I felt the cold steel of his eyes through mine and through my brain. But what he saw seemed to satisfy him no less than what he heard, for his hand found my hand, and pressed it with a fervour foreign to the man. 'I know you are, and I knew you would be. Only remember, Bunny, it's my turn next to pay the shot!

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.

The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.